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With little fanfare, the General Services Administration (GSA) announced it was migrating data from the well-known Excluded Parties List System (EPLS) to a new and more comprehensive system called the [...]

New mutual interest is being generated by Bush's administration plan for more 'outsourced' government and its tougher security priorities and in turn, firms are reviving up stakes in the federal market. The Chairman, BE&K, Birmingham, Mike Goodrich said that the (federal) market is counter-recessionary to the traditional markets.

The nature of doing business with integrators and government is changing. Although the government fosters competition and has goals for small business, it still is difficult for small vendors to […]

Byline: Doug Woodburn SMBs The government has finally put its money where its mouth is and started awarding more juicy contracts to SMBs. At the start of the year, large [...]

After a decade of booming contract spending, the federal acquisition market is expected to tighten considerably in fiscal 2011, with fewer opportunities for companies to win major awards, according to [...]

When Clint Boulton wrote about the competition for the cloud services proposals that have gone to the General Services Administration, he correctly pointed out that Google, IBM and Microsoft all [...]

Government contracts for translation services are on the rise, and the increase is not due solely to defense and security needs, according to a new report from an independent market [...]

The struggle to balance contractors with military and civilian government personnel in Iraq continues -- and might be intensifying -- as the military effort there tapers off. Witnesses told the [...]

The 20 biggest government contracts to be awarded in fiscal 2010 will be valued at more than $180 billion, much of going toward IT, research firm INPUT estimates. That's a […]

Economic recession, political uncertainty and shifting priorities have curbed the recent growth in defense spending and military contracts for Southeast Michigan businesses, according to state and federal data. Activity reports [...]

Defense and IT contractor Northrop Grumman said Wednesday that it's been selected by the U.S. General Services Administration to compete for a wide range of civil- and defense-related government technology […]

New York Gov. David Paterson's office on Thursday terminated the state's $2 billion Statewide Wireless Network (SWN) after years of delay and recriminations between New York and vendor M/A-com. In […]

The ongoing battle over New York state's $2 billion Statewide Wireless Network (SWN) is reaching a climax as state officials are said to be preparing to cancel the project with […]

The Panama Canal Authority officially received a total of six bids Dec. 4 for the third of four dry excavation contracts under its Canal Expansion Program. The bids will be [...]

Carlos SlimEs much touted foray into infrastructure has failed to dazzle, despite high hopes that the name would help lure government contracts. But the race is only just beginning. by [...]

Byline: [By Carol Wilson ] Municipal fiber-to-the-home networks, particularly in smaller cities and towns and even rural areas, are once again on the rise, due in part to the declining [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Star Navigation Systems Group Ltd (TSX-V: SNA) has said that India's Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has made a request for bandwidth allotment [...]

The U.S. government currently has about one-fifth fewer IT projects at risk of failing or having other serious flaws compared to earlier this year, according to an updated report released […]

BYLINE: R. G. Edmonson ORLANDO, Fla. -- Customs and Border Protection has decided not to offer a contract for development of the Global Trade Exchange, Commissioner W. Ralph Basham said [...]

In Part II of our investigation into the millions of dollars lost to pass-throughs, we look at what can be done to fight back, ask the department in charge for [...]

Byline: Susan DeGrane While local governments get credit for filling potholes, that hardly covers the countless other services they provide in the interest of public safety and health. American City [...]

The parties to a transaction must consider a range of costs beyond those associated with financing, production and delivery of the product being sold, such as the cost of documenting [...]

A great deal of money is at stake when government agencies negotiate contracts with external service providers. Across a wide range of categories, public sector organizations engage in contract services [...]

Appeal of Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians IBCA No. 4711 (April 14, 2006) The Department of the Interior Board of Contract Appeals has ruled that when the government's underpayment of [...]

While the amount of contracting out seems to be leveling off, the number of larger, long-term contracts seems to be increasing. Such contracts are generally not well described in local budgets. Recent efforts in some cities to shift to more outcome-oriented performance budgeting should push toward more clarity in reporting on major contracts in the budget. This article examines how a handful of major cities handle contracts in their budgets-in some cities contracts are omitted from the budget or all merged into one budget line-and makes some suggestions for improvements.

Federal contract spending in 2005 saw a 20 percent dip compared to last year, according to Input, a Reston, Va.-based research firm. While the near term could see moderate recovery, […]

How public-sector work is reshaping management-consultancy MANAGEMENT consultants used to be people with MBAs and large egos who wanted to reinvent General Electric. But more and more of their work [...]

Federal buying is a whole different world than it was 15 years ago. What does it take to be one of the Top 200 federal contractors that we feature in [...]

The government is in talks with suppliers to the £6bn NHS national IT programme to change the way the contracts are paid for. The deals were set up to pay […]

Federal Agencies * SMITHS DETECTION, Pine Brook, N.J., has been awarded contract modifications worth more than $56 million by the U.S. Department of Defense to supply 5,200 Automatic Chemical Agent […]

Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems and BAE Systems face major challenges in producing commercial airline missile countermeasures systems sufficiently cheaply to meet government specifications, an independent report has concluded. Both companies [...]

Whitehall buying agency the Office of Government Commerce and the Small Business Service are tendering for a national web portal service. The aim is to ease the process for firms […]

From the Texas Contractor Austin Bureau Construction spending in Texas by federal agencies -- excluding federal highway aid and water projects -- is expected to reach at least $719,800,000 in [...]